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A few months ago we told you about a Chinese Wii one-off called the Vii. This product steals not only Nintendo's design and control scheme, but also bites from its marketing and advertising model, as it's aimed at families, children, and elderly people.

Seeing the device in action in the Vii's Chinese television infomercial really hits home. The games look like sad rip-offs of Wii Sports titles, and the two misshapen-headed mascots are horrendously ugly. Scary even. Also, who is James?

There's one exception: I pointed out earlier that the Cooking Mama rip-off looked pretty good, and  now that I've seen the game in action, I have to say that it looks to have slightly better graphics than Cooking Mama. Weird.   

The disassembly by the Chinese engadget team has awaits after the jump. You'll be surprised to see innards of this console -- there's hardly anything in it!


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B-Radicate's Avatar
B-Radicate at 12/03/2007 09:47
Sadly I'd prolly play this more than I play my Wii.
Boolean's Avatar
Boolean at 12/03/2007 09:48
God, how many times did it show that fucking table tennis game?
B-Radicate's Avatar
B-Radicate at 12/03/2007 09:48
WTF? There is nothing in that!? Chinese ingenuity at its finest right there.
Scientist tz's Avatar
Scientist tz at 12/03/2007 09:57
So I'm guessing it works like those "20 in 1" things that looks like an atari controller, hooks up to a video output in your TV and has 20 atari games loaded onto a cheap internal memory chip.
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Barcode at 12/03/2007 10:22
ROFL @ the inside of the Vii. It's sad for me to know I would probably buy that if it were cheap.
king3vbo's Avatar
king3vbo at 12/03/2007 10:41
EL OH EL
Professor Pew's Avatar
Professor Pew at 12/03/2007 10:49
Spoiler: Vii contains lead and e-coli.
ToasT's Avatar
ToasT at 12/03/2007 11:28
Since it is aimed at kids, they also included the date rape drug in the controlers.
Necros's Avatar
Necros at 12/03/2007 11:33
I still prefer the Wu.
Oni's Avatar
Oni at 12/03/2007 12:09
@Professor Pew: If you're stupid enough to put the innards of the damn thing in your mouth you deserve to die.
Oni's Avatar
Oni at 12/03/2007 12:10
Damn, that comment wasn't aimed at you, Prof Pew. Just people in general.
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moot button at 12/03/2007 19:04
WOW! they got James' endorsement!! Must..get..Vii!!
Reallynotnick's Avatar
Reallynotnick at 12/03/2007 21:17
Finally a Wii somebody can buy, plus it has more games! Too bad the shipping from china kills the deal...
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